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Ex-president Rodrigo Duterte asks the army: ‘How lengthy will you help a drug addict of a President?’
MANILA, Philippines – Former president Rodrigo Duterte used his signature doublespeak once more, calling for army and police intervention to “defend the Structure” amid what he described as a “fractured” authorities. However he stopped simply wanting explicitly advocating for a coup d’état.
“There’s a fracture in authorities, and solely the army can see the answer,” Duterte stated throughout a press convention, livestreamed on his Fb web page, late on Monday night, November 25.
The previous president, by no means one to shrink back from controversy, brazenly known as President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. a drug addict once more. For the primary time, he prolonged this declare to incorporate Marcos’ particular assistant, Antonio Lagdameo Jr., suggesting that each have been concerned in the identical illicit exercise. He offered no proof to again his claims.
The Palace has but to answer Duterte’s newest tirades however in January, Marcos answered a comparable accusation made by the ex-president by suggesting that such habits could have resulted from his use of fentanyl.
Throughout his presidency, Duterte admitted to utilizing fentanyl patches to handle spinal ache.
Duterte framed the state of affairs as a nationwide disaster solely the Armed Forces might resolve. “There’s a fractured governance within the Philippines at this time… It is just the army who can appropriate it,” he stated.
He then turned to the army immediately: “Hanggang kailan kayo mag-suporta ng drug addict na presidente?” (How lengthy will you help a drug addict of a President?)
Whereas Duterte made it clear that he believed army intervention was obligatory to guard the integrity of the Structure and that he deliberate on assembly with army officers from Camp Aguinaldo about it, he was cautious to not explicitly name for a coup.
Duterte’s newest assaults on the Marcos Jr. administration got here within the wake of a congressional investigation right into a corruption scandal hounding his daughter, Vice President Sara Duterte, that noticed a few of her employees being cited for contempt and her chief of employees, Zuleika Lopez, positioned underneath Home detention. (READ: Pretend receipts? Right here’s a abstract of Home probe into Sara Duterte’s funds)
On Saturday, November 23, a fuming Sara took to social media, cussing on the President, First Woman Liza Araneta Marcos, and Speaker Martin Romualdez for allegedly conspiring in opposition to her.
Sara, livid, publicly introduced that she had requested a hitman to kill them ought to she meet a violent finish. She claimed there was an assassination plot in opposition to her and accused Romualdez, Marcos’ cousin, of being behind it.
In Davao, her father downplayed the state of affairs, saying Sara was able to dealing with the allegations in opposition to her, and that his daughter was being well-secured. – Rappler.com
